The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.